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Milwaukee Hospital Develops Web-Based Pediatric Asthma Tracking System and Educational Program for Emergency Department Visits

Published: Dec 01, 2006

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A collaboration named Emergency Department Allies brought together Children's Hospital and Health System and five collaborating hospitals in the Milwaukee area to develop a tracking system to monitor emergency department pediatric asthma care.

Project staff also conducted a randomized clinical trial to evaluate two emergency department-based education and treatment interventions to help asthma patients and parents.

The project was part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) national program Managing Pediatric Asthma: Emergency Department Demonstration Program (for more information see Grant Results).

Key Results and Findings

  • The project implemented a Web-based, password-protected system that collected data on 3,302 emergency department pediatric asthma patients in its first 18 months of operation and remained ongoing at the end of the grant period.
  • The clinical trial demonstrated no important benefits for patients in either of the two intervention groups.

Funding
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) supported the project from 2001 through 2005 with an $875,000 grant.

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Listed below is one grant that supported this project.

Grant Awarded to Amount
Managing Pediatric Asthma: Emergency Department Demonstration Program Children's Health System, Inc. (Milwaukee, WI)
ID#: 043507
Kevin J. Kelly, M.D.
414-266-6400
kkelly@mcw.edu 		Actual award: $875,000
October 2001 to December 2005

RWJF may have supported this project with other grants that are not listed.

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